Adrian Robinson

In basketball, it's the squeak of shoes on hardwood and a bouncing ball. In football, the most recognized sounds of the game are loud clacks of bodies hitting bodies, helmets hitting helmets — heads hitting heads.

Those hits may be entertaining, but they can cause serious brain damage, known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease whose symptoms include confusion, mood swings, impaired judgment and eventually dementia.

The disease has led to a rash of suicides by young and middle-aged men who were once football's (and hockey's) most celebrated players. With the acknowledgment that CTE is widespread — and the Christmas Day release...

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In basketball, it's the squeak of shoes on hardwood and a bouncing ball. In football, the most recognized sounds of the game are loud clacks of bodies hitting bodies, helmets hitting helmets — heads hitting heads.
Those hits may be entertaining, but they...

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HAMILTON, Ontario -- Adrian Robinson, the former Temple defensive lineman who recently signed with the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats, has died. He was 25.
The Tiger-Cats and Robinson's representatives announced the death Sunday. They...